Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-09
THE TARIFF CONFERENCE.
The Reduction Plan as it was Mapped
Out
NOTHING MORE TO BE DONE UNTIL CONGRESS MEETS
MR.. RANDALL IGNoRED-THE PRESIDENT TO ACT
WITH FIRMNEss AND vIGoR.

NOTHING MORE TO BE DONE UNTIL CONGRESS MEETS
MIR. RANDALL IGNoRED-THE PRESIDENT TO ACT
WITH FIRMNESS AND vIGOR.
The tariff conference at Oak View is over. The
participants viii make no statement on the sub
ject beyond the guarded and unimportant utter.
ances or Mr. Scott. STAR reporter asked Speaker
Carlisle about the matter to-day and he replied
that everything was as far as this conference
was concerned, and implied that there remained
nothing to be done until Congress should meet.
AS TO Mr. Randall's part in the subject he said:
sit is we'll known that Mr. Randall was not out
there" There was nothing to be said beyond
What Mr.. Scott had stated. The fact that the
conference is all over indicates, seemed evident
from the first, that Mr.. Randall Is TO be ignored
for the present at least.
TEE PLAN FOR THE TARIFF REDUCTION
mapped out is, in general terms, as THE STAR has
before stated, for a substantial reduction OF the
customs duties accompanied by the repeal OF the
tobacco tax, as sugar coating for the Virginia
and North Carolina delegations. The principal
matter or doubt is as TO the course OF the
administration toward Mr.. Randall. The DISPOSE
ton OF the President is treat the whole question
with hrInness and vigor. Carlisle and Scott were,
1t Is understood, more conciiatOry in their att1-
tude. Mr.. Scott, 1t is understood, was OF the i'm
preston that Mr.. Randall could be conc11ated and
coaxed into following the plan OF the adm1nistra-
uOn.
MR.. RANDALLs ATTITUDE.
1t is practically certain that Mr.. Randall cannot
it will be brought before the House. The fact that
he has not been consulted in the matter of forming
the plan has, in the first place, predlSpOSed him to
antagOniZet. In the second place the 'SubStant1a'
reduction OF the customs Will, in all probability
be too substantial to meet with his views. Then
comes the question or how he is to stand in the
party an opponent Of the policy or the admins
trat1On. whether they have definitely decided TO
TO treat him as an enemy and run right over him
II he fails TO acQuesce in the plan is uncertain.
Mr. Scott Is personally friendly with Mr.. Randall,
and MIR. Cartisle's natural disposition is opposed
vised to send for MI. Randall and TO tell him what
him that ii he is not going to work with them he
will be treated as an outside opponent. The
chances are that the plan Will be 10 make over
lures to him, far as is consistent with deter
minatfOn to substantially reduce the tariff, and TO
use all their power against him II he refuses to
meet them part way In this
THE PROPOSITION TO REPEAL THE TOBACCO TAX
Is an immense concession, but it is not made so
much in Difference to his wishes as to prevent his
drawing over to his side democrats from Virginia,
North Carolina, and elsewhere in the South. They
hope not only to prevent his gaining recruits but
to take from him most OF his pres
ent followers by the addition Of
this feature They think that the men from
certain sections, II put to the pinch, whether
they are republicans or democrats, dare not vote
against bill that repeats the tobacco tax;
whether they MAXI personal warfare On Randall
or not they expect to render him helpless by the
influence the Administration and of the tobacco
Clause upon his followers.